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  • Chasing shadows

    Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, recognised for his work with the Afrapix collective and on the newspaper New Nation. In these photographs he records a country struggling to come to terms with its past and future

  • The art of phwoar

    Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away. But are they any good? Michael Bywater offers a classical critique

  • Mills and minarets

    The proving grounds for the government's policy to prevent home-grown Jihad are the industrial towns of the North. Paul Sims investigates

  • Moral dilemmas

    Do we have the right to judge others? Steven Lukes reviews the evidence

  • Bad vibrations

    Songs can break more than your heart. Martin Cloonan on the sinister uses and abuses of music

  • Diary: Science friction

    It seems even sci-fi geeks can indulge in a spot of retrospective offence, says Natalie Haynes

  • Hatefest

    We must prevent the UN being unravelled by bigotry and conflict, argues Ian Williams

  • From Fatwa to Jihad by Kenan Malik

    Lindsay Johns is impressed by Kenan Malik's take on Rushdie and race

  • In the burning house

    In 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition. Three years later she drowned herself. Her husband, the philosopher Michail Ryklin, reads her diaries to find out why

  • Unsafe havens

    The Government is planning tougher penalties for men who use trafficked prostitutes. But who is helping the women themselves? Rahila Gupta uncovers a distributing trend